Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose Tufa which is cheap and easily obtainable and quite a good substitute for real coral rock . |
| 2 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 3 | Where there is such a controlling stratum it must become socially and politically dominant and therefore a ruling class . |
| 4 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 5 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |